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Israel-Gaza Megathread #2
This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
I've seen plenty of photos of people who look like they were shot, so probably, yeah.
The nature of the activities beyond that I actually have very little insight -- there's no reason to trust anything released by either party other than stuff that looks like it would be beyond their (respective) capability to easily fake, and very little of what I've seen comes from anything close to a disinterested bystander.
Not sure if this is some in-joke that I don't get. but there are reports of it being antagonistic, so maybe other people don't get this "joke" either. Whether its a joke or not, its not a good contribution, please don't do this.
It was antagonistic and I shouldn’t have said it. My emotions got the best of me but there seems like so many earnest denials of things we all saw on video it reminds me of Alex Jones and Sandy Hook.
This refers to Alex Jones and his denial of reality about Sandy Hook shooting - zeke was claiming that jkf is doing the same with "The nature of the activities beyond that I actually have very little insight" about Hamas.
There were more clear comments made by them elsewhere at that time.
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They released photos of two burnt objects of some kind -- maybe they were babies, maybe not. The rest (other than the hostages) -- how do you know?
What happened that day according to you? Was anyone killed?
I've seen plenty of photos of people who look like they were shot, so probably, yeah.
The nature of the activities beyond that I actually have very little insight -- there's no reason to trust anything released by either party other than stuff that looks like it would be beyond their (respective) capability to easily fake, and very little of what I've seen comes from anything close to a disinterested bystander.
Okay Alex
Not sure if this is some in-joke that I don't get. but there are reports of it being antagonistic, so maybe other people don't get this "joke" either. Whether its a joke or not, its not a good contribution, please don't do this.
It was antagonistic and I shouldn’t have said it. My emotions got the best of me but there seems like so many earnest denials of things we all saw on video it reminds me of Alex Jones and Sandy Hook.
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"The saddest words of tongue and pen"...
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